Dating app predator wept over diagnosis

A PREDATORY paedophile wept behind bars when he learned a cancer diagnosis was terminal, a report has revealed.

- JOHN SCHEERHOUT

Marc Harmer was initially refused release from prison on compassionate grounds, but that decision was later reviewed and he died in hospital in June last year. He was 56.

Harmer, then 55, was jailed for five years in October 2021 after he was convicted of a series of sex offences. He tried to meet children after grooming them on Grindr, Manchester Crown Court was told. Harmer also bragged to other likeminded deviants about having sex with a teenage boy.